New Books in Environmental Studies

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What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
May 15, 2025 – 37:21
Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
May 14, 2025 – 36:41
Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 44:50
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 12, 2025 – 49:46
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 11, 2025 – 49:01
Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
May 10, 2025 – 55:51
Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
May 7, 2025 – 39:40
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
May 6, 2025 – 01:15:56
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 5, 2025 – 39:25
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
May 4, 2025 – 48:05
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
May 2, 2025 – 47:19
Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)
May 1, 2025 – 36:47
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 30, 2025 – 36:32
Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025 – 30:51
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Apr 24, 2025 – 50:52
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 21, 2025 – 46:19
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:04:57
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:08:53
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:04:41
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Apr 9, 2025 – 54:50
Duncan Watson, "Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds" (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2024)
Apr 8, 2025 – 39:45
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
Apr 5, 2025 – 02:05:32
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 1, 2025 – 47:02
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025 – 44:31
Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025 – 55:31
Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Mar 28, 2025 – 01:04:17
V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:04:16
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025 – 34:49
Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
Mar 21, 2025 – 24:50
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 20, 2025 – 30:32
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 43:07
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025 – 48:16
Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)
Mar 17, 2025 – 31:43
Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 16, 2025 – 01:01:38
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 15, 2025 – 42:53
Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 14, 2025 – 59:55
Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
Mar 11, 2025 – 45:05
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025 – 42:55
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:09:18
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:06:22
Andrew Boyd, "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor" (New Society, 2023)
Mar 3, 2025 – 50:03
Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025 – 36:45
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025 – 51:19
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 53:35
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:07:10
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 54:44
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 28, 2025 – 52:40
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Feb 27, 2025 – 01:02:39
Ethan Tapper, "How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
Feb 22, 2025 – 48:12